US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics on March 4 for "Macs-based purification of stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,083, issued on March 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics Inc. (Madison, Wis.).

"Macs-based purification of stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelium" was invented by Nathan Meyer (Madison, Wis.), Lucas Chase (Madison, Wis.) and Casey Stankewicz (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are methods of enriching a retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell population derived from stem cells. Such a method may comprise removing contaminating cells through the depletion of CD24 positive cells, CD56 positive cells, and/or CD90 positive cells from a starting population of RPE cells."

The patent was filed on Oct...